---
type: "Bill"
title: "Exempting businesses transporting scrap tires, waste tires, or other used tires, from certain statutory provisions"
description: "Exempting businesses transporting scrap tires, waste tires, or other used tires, from certain statutory provisions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 4026"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4026 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Service Commission"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jeffries, D."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 38
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-01-08"
last_action: "2020-04-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d936f939-48b3-4768-a664-f895eb413ed3"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4026&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "db0285d25fc2727e545f8a4f7ae37d117b9edbb091abb835bd35f7bf75587c5c"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-wv"]
---

# West Virginia HB 4026 (2020) — Exempting businesses transporting scrap tires, waste tires, or other used tires, from certain statutory provisions

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4026%20SUB.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4026)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4026%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4026)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4026%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4026)

## Votes

- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **90–9** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **96–2** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jeffries, D. — primary (person)
- Bartlett — cosponsor (person)
- Campbell — cosponsor (person)
- Foster — cosponsor (person)
- Hansen — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffries, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Porterfield — cosponsor (person)
- Summers — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2020-01-08** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2020-01-08** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-08** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2020-01-08** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-27** By substitute, do pass
- **2020-01-28** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-01-28** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-01-29** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-01-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-01-30** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-01-30** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-01-30** Passed House (Roll No. 63) `passage`
- **2020-01-30** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-01-31** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2020-01-31** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-31** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-14** Reported do pass, with amendment `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-17** On 1st reading
- **2020-02-17** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-18** On 2nd reading
- **2020-02-18** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-18** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2020-02-19** On 3rd reading
- **2020-02-19** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-19** Passed Senate (Roll No. 189) `passage`
- **2020-02-19** Senate requests House to concur
- **2020-02-20** House received Senate message
- **2020-02-20** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 244)
- **2020-02-20** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-02-20** Completed legislative action
- **2020-02-21** House Message received
- **2020-02-27** To Governor 2/27/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-02-27** To Governor 2/27/20 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-02-28** To Governor 2/27/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-04** Approved by Governor 3/4/20 - Senate Journal
- **2020-03-05** Approved by Governor 3/4/20 - House Journal
- **2020-03-04** Approved by Governor 3/4/20 `executive-signature`
- **2020-04-15** Chapter 219, Acts, Regular Session, 2020

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d936f939-48b3-4768-a664-f895eb413ed3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).